Google News: Civil Rights

Arapahoe Herald: The gays deserve rights too: Racial discrimination was banned ...
my.hsj.org
America also denies, to a rather large portion of its people, several “basic civil rights of man.” The plight of the gay person is the civil rights movement ...

BBC News
Don't Blame Gay Politician for Anti-Gay Bias
East Bay Express
... the world of right-wing bigotry is so powerful and so scary for some people that it can convince a terrified gay politician to deny basic civil rights ...
Republican California State Senator Roy Ashburn: 'I'm Gay'Associated Content
Calif. Senator & Gay AdmissionRightFielders Women in Sports
"I'm Gay," Says Sen. Roy AshburnSFist
NewsBlaze -AlterNet (blog) -Bay Area Reporter
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CBC.ca
'Great step for equality' as gay weddings come to US capital
Sydney Morning Herald
"Today, especially today, the arc of our rainbow universe is long and bends towards justice," Stanley said, paraphrasing slain civil rights leader Martin ...
Staff Editorial: District of Columbia's gay rights decision a sign to rest of ...Daily Eastern News
Five Myths about Same Sex MarriageTown Hall
First same-sex marriages celebrated in DCWashington Post
ABC News -Merced Sun-Star
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Anti-Gay NY State Senator Supporters Call Rival A 'Puppet of 'Rich Gay Fanatics'
EDGE Boston
... popular Assemblymember Jose Peralta, who has consistently voted in favor of marriage equality, transgender civil rights and other important LGBT issues. ...

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New York Daily News
Republican California State Senator Roy Ashburn: 'I'm Gay'
Associated Content
Citing his constituency for voting against his own civil rights, some call him a political hero. The news is abuzz with the revelation that Republican ...
Calif. Senator & Gay AdmissionRightFielders Women in Sports
"I'm Gay," Says Sen. Roy AshburnSFist
GOP CA State Senator Roy Ashburn Arrested For DUI After Leaving Gay ClubNewsBlaze
AlterNet (blog) -Bay Area Reporter
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Cities to LGBTA Crowd - Come as You Are
Hotel Interactive, Inc.
... the hotel's employer ratings published by the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual civil rights. ...

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Sunshine primary
msnbc.com
Let's suppose during the Bush administration it came to light that the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department was hiring lawyers who had previously ...

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New Website for Catholics for Marriage Equality
Gayapolis
We do implore the Church to honor the States' prerogative to authorize civil marriages for our gay and lesbian family and friends. ...
Priest apologises for joking that marriage is not for 'Adam and Steve'Telegraph.co.uk

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New York Daily News
Democrat forced from office after gay incident
Dallas Voice
I fully support civil unions and equal legal rights for all Americans. Although civil unions do not provide all of the answers for the issues facing same ...
ABOUT FIRST READmsnbc.com

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Washington Post
VIRGINIA PUNDIT: Are we living the thesis?
Virginia Gazette
Human rights will eventually win out. Your position on gay rights is opposed by huge majorities of younger voters. You've already lost the first so you ...
Civil-rights groups respond to AG letter on nondiscrimination policyAugusta Free Press
Virginia colleges: Just say 'no' to CuccinelliWashington Post (blog)
Virginia Newspaper Editor Denounces Anti-Gay Action By State's Attorney GeneralPR Newswire (press release)
The Associated Press -Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) -Right Pundits
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Telegraph.co.uk
Calif. Senator & Gay Admission
RightFielders Women in Sports
Senator & gay rumors came out Monday, civil-rights groups attacked with viciously with accusations of hypocrisy and lying. “I felt my duty – and I still ...
"I'm Gay," Says Sen. Roy AshburnSFist
GOP CA State Senator Roy Ashburn Arrested For DUI After Leaving Gay ClubNewsBlaze
Sexual orientation relevant to closet cases' victimsAlterNet (blog)
Bay Area Reporter -San Francisco Chronicle
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Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to 'Black Genocide'
Religion Dispatches
For several years now, the religious right has been trying to appropriate the moral authority of the Civil Rights Movement. It's an audacious strategy, ...

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BBC News
California legislator Roy Ashburn acknowledges he's gay, draws colleagues' support
Fresno Bee
"I think that if you are ashamed," she said, "that you often do not value the civil rights of the group you belong to because you're ashamed to be in that ...
Calif. Senator & Gay AdmissionRightFielders Women in Sports
"I'm Gay," Says Sen. Roy AshburnSFist
GOP CA State Senator Roy Ashburn Arrested For DUI After Leaving Gay ClubNewsBlaze
AlterNet (blog) -Bay Area Reporter -San Francisco Chronicle
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CBC.ca
Five Myths about Same Sex Marriage
Town Hall
Activists argue that same-sex “marriage” is like the civil rights issue of racial equality, that homosexuals “deserve” the right to “marry” and have the ...
Staff Editorial: District of Columbia's gay rights decision a sign to rest of ...Daily Eastern News
First Two Same Sex Couples to Be Married in Washington, DC.ABC News
Washington weddings begin for same-sex couplesMerced Sun-Star

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Women on the Web
Civil right of marriage must be defined at the ballot
Boston Globe
RE “GAY rights by law, not vote'' (Editorial, Feb. 28): The key question is where do civil rights come from, judges or the people? ...
Brenda Feigen: Second-Class All the WayWomen on the Web

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Reuters
Justices to Weigh Religion, Speech Rights in Funeral Flap
Wired News
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to delve into the sensitive question of whether the First Amendment protects anti-gay protesters carrying ...
High Court to Hear Protest, Vaccine CasesCBS News
High Court Will Hear Anti-Gay Funeral Protest CaseWBUR
Westboro Church Protests Head To Supreme CourtHuffington Post (blog)

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Vote on referendum not about democracy
Nashua Telegraph
People would have to think about whether or not they would like every law if they were in the place of the person whose civil rights were being challenged. ...

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Just Jared (blog)
Sean Hayes Comes Out Gay to The Advocate. 'You're Welcome.'
Autostraddle (blog)
The research says if somebody knows a gay person, they're going to be more in favor of our civil rights. And tens of millions of people know Sean and love ...
Sean Hayes Officially Comes OutLez Get Real

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E! Online (blog)
Sean Hayes Officially Comes Out
Lez Get Real
“The research says if somebody knows a gay person, they're going to be more in favor of our civil rights,” Bragman says. “And tens of millions of people ...
Sean Hayes Comes Out Gay to The Advocate. 'You're Welcome.'Autostraddle (blog)

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New York Daily News
"I'm Gay," Says Sen. Roy Ashburn
SFist
Ashburn's checkered civil rights record includes voting against a Senate resolution declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional, thrice shooting down the creation of ...
GOP CA State Senator Roy Ashburn Arrested For DUI After Leaving Gay ClubNewsBlaze
Sexual orientation relevant to closet cases' victimsAlterNet (blog)
Online extra: DUI arrest brings scrutiny to personal life of state senatorBay Area Reporter
Village Voice (blog) -Gawker
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